The 1.2 MW skill biogas plant donate generate electricity by utilizing the litter from the palm oil mill at the Company's palm oil plantation in Belitung. In half a shake, the Sorority the length of its lesser, PT Sahabat Mewah dan Makmur, operates a palm oil plantation in Belitung with a planted and established sphere of 14,229 hectares along with a palm oil mill with a production skill of 60 to excess per hour. All of the CPO production from this winery has obtained Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification.
The establishment was attended by the Inspector In general of Renewable Potential and Potential Amend, Rida Mulyana; the Bioenergy Inspector of the Renewable Potential and Potential Amend, Dadan Kusdiana; the Regent of East Belitung, Basuri Tjahaja Purnama and the rule of the Sorority and AANE.
"AANE is the new Monarch Working group Producer ("IPP") in Indonesia to sink a biogas plant and conduct the electricity commercially. All of the electricity supply fashioned by AANE donate be transmitted to the administration network of PT PLN (Persero) ("PLN") and purchased by PLN in agreement with the Working group Hold Obedience ("PPA"), which is set at a figure of Rp. 975 per kWh. The request of the electricity is complete based on the Feed-in Esteem for biogas pursuant to the Contract of the Priest of Potential and Granite Rites No. 04 of 2012," explained Suwito Anggoro, the Person in command Inspector of the Sorority.
This power generation plant with a intact investment of in the neighborhood USD3.5 million is the new power generation plant built by AANE and it is envisaged that AANE donate knock together power generation plants at the Company's other plantations in Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua. The financing of the biogas power generation plant in Belitung was obtained semi from the pickings of the initial say acquaint with (IPO) of the Sorority in the size of USD1 million and the untruth came from the Company's resources capital.
"We chose Belitung as the new conventional for this type of power plant based on various factors in addition to good data lines, interest and funding from the decree and public rural community," explained Suwito.
The scaffold of the environmentally pleasant biogas power generation plant sets a high point for the Sorority in the renewable energy business. This is in line with the panorama of the Sorority to excursion a world-class wedge and renewable energy company that contributes to the welfare of the Indonesian ethnic group.
